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VOLUME 21, NO. 6
Historic Santa Fe Depot Renovation Groundbreaking Today
Weathered and worn, the long-awaited start of rehab work on the Santa Fe Depot will commence Thursday.
A special groundbreaking event celebrating the start of the rehabilitation work on the Historic Santa Fe Depot has been scheduled to take place this coming Thursday, Feb.9, at 10 a.m. The event will take
place at the Historic Santa Fe Depot site at Station Square. This building is actually the third depot at the location. As per the city’s application notes, the “present depot building, designed
Monrovia Old Town Report BY PAM FITZPATRICK
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s I’ve said before, I do love a good mystery! Well, thanks to my friend, Council Member Becky Shevlin, I’ve had a good couple of weeks trying to “unbewilder” myself. To experience this nutty feeling for yourself, you have
to go up to the 300 block of South Myrtle and listen to understand the Mystery of the Birds. Day and night, rain or shine – birds on the rooftops, or not – there is a conSEE PAGE 13
by noted railway architect William H. Mohr and constructed by Sumner-Sollett Company, was completed in 1926. Mohr’s previous work included stations in Oakland (1910), San Bernardino (1918), and Phoenix, Ariz.
- Photo by Terry Miller / Beacon Media News
(1923). Mohr’s final documented Southern California Santa Fe station is the Claremont Depot dedicated in November 1927.” SEE PAGE 12
Monrovia Police Department Receives $105K to Support Homeless Response Team Efforts Recently, the city of Monrovia was awarded with two new grants to further support and supplement the Police Department’s homeless response operation. In total, the city was awarded $105,000 in grant funding for the response effort, to include the
following: The Department received a $65,000 grant to establish a two-person homeless response squad Based on the terms of the grant, the city manager’s office says they plan on developing the program to include
two officers who will work five hours per week on homeless related issues The Department also received a $40,000 grant to train officers to work with the City’s assigned mental health clinician in dealing with homeless issues.